Jac;406491 Wrote: > Hi, > > I have now had my duet for a while now but I am to the point of giving > up as I cannot get it to be stable to the point I would want it to be. > I have dedicated a PC (Pentium 4 at 3 Ghz running Vista) . The only > other program running is windows MS Mediacenter which is connected to a > TV used for DVDs. I have over 1000 albums (21000 titles) in FLAC on a > USB 1 TByte WD drive > > By being stable I mean 90 % of the time it is fine, but every once in a > while for no obvious reason the response gets very slow when browsing > for music. In other instances the music can take up to 10 seconds to > start. Sometimes it will be fine after 15 minutes or so, or in other > cases the only way to get everything back right is to restart > everything, from the PC to resetting the remote. I have now started to > look at CPU utilization, and have noticed that when it slows down it is > the squeezcenter program that is running at over 50% CPU. > > I am also running my WIFI with 2 Access points with the same name, > since I have a large area to cover. > > Who can recommend the simplest setup where there would be no (very very > low) risk of the this anoying hickup to occasionaly happen. Is > squeezecenter more stable on LINUX? or maybe on MAC. It would be a > pity and $$ to dedicate a MAC. Can it be Vista? I have rebuilt the PC > and the only 3rd party application is squeexebox. My WIFI network has > been running fine for 2 years and I do not want change it, but could it > be the 2 Access Points (with same SSID name) that cause this? I had > thought of setting it independentaly usng the players WIFI, but this > makes me loose access from my boombox, and I loose the range I need. > > If anyone has every had such issue and managed to resolve some help > would really really really be appreciated!! > > ......Especially the last 2 times in a week that it crashed was when I > had over 30 guests in the house, and the last thing I wanted to be > doing is resetting everything to get the music back > > Jac
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